According to the South Korean Chosun Ilbo: “China is preparing for a potential war on the Korean Peninsula by reinforcing missile defenses near the border with North Korea. Military units in Yanbian were relocated from Heilongjiang Province, thus adding 300,000 troops along the border.”

This large troop movement comes days after hawkish comments by American “disarmament” envoy Robert Wood.

Wood told the UN that North Korea’s nuclear weapons must be “completely, verifiably and irreversibly eliminated” because it is “months away” from developing a missile that can strike anywhere within the US.

Wood also accuses Russia, China, and North Korea of “growing their stockpiles, increasing the prominence of nuclear weapons in their security strategies, and – in some cases – pursuing the development of new nuclear capabilities to threaten other peaceful nations.”

Indeed, because the main target for China, Russia, and North Korea in a war scenario is the US (and not the smaller pawns around them as some might be led to believe), new nuclear weapon delivery systems (such as hypersonic ballistic missiles) would need to be developed in order to circumvent these defense systems completely rather than be forced to take the gambit.

At risk now is a war between two competing superpowers and a demonstrably nuclear-capable wild card.